Jurors in the trial of Michael Madigan left the courthouse Wednesday, their sixth day of deliberations, without having reached a verdict — and without having sent any notes or asked any questions. The complete radio silence was somewhat unusual: Jurors have sent at least one communication every day since they began their discussions the afternoon of Jan.

Jury deliberations are approaching the one-week mark at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and co-defendant Michael McClain. The jury got the case last Wednesday afternoon at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.

Madigan, the longest-serving statehouse Speaker in US history, is accused of using his influence to gain more power and wealth for himself and allies.

Nearly four months after they were first called to Chicago’s federal courthouse, jurors have begun deliberating in the most consequential Illinois public corruption case in years: the

Deliberations in the Michael Madigan political corruption trial continued for a sixth day, though there was no verdict, as a jury of eight women and four men continued combing through a mountain of evidence.